Rene Garcia Farias v. Loretta Lynch

MEMORANDUM

Rene Ernesto Garcia Farias, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence the agency’s factual findings, and de novo due process contentions, Vilchez v. Holder, 682 F.3d 1195, 1198-99 (9th Cir. 2012), and we deny the petition for review.

We reject Garcia Farias’ contention that the agency violated his due process rights. See Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1046 (9th Cir. 2000) (requiring error to prevail on a due process claim).

Substantial evidence supports the agency’s determination that Garcia Farias failed to establish that a protected ground was “one central reason” for the harm he experienced from his father, or that it would be for the harm he fears from his father or cartels in Mexico. See Parussimova v. Mukasey, 555 F.3d 734, 740 (9th Cir. 2008) (under the REAL ID Act, an applicant must prove a protected ground is at least ‘one central reason’ for persecution);…